In a weird way, I hope she delivers an honest, introspective account of how she managed to clear away the emotional rubble, if indeed she has, and if indeed our celebrity-train-wreck culture will let her 14 years after her world imploded.

Yeah, Lewinsky has a book to sell, even though she "gave hours of interviews to Andrew Morton, Princess Di’s British biographer, for his 1999 book, 'Monica’s Story,' the same year she spilled her guts along with some tears in a long, unpaid ABC News sit-down with Barbara Walters." She has a book to sell because she's lived through a long expanse of years since the 1999 glossy media blitz that she might have imagined would get her life going on a rewarding new track.

What's it been like being Monica Lewinsky all these years? That's the new story. Monica, The Middle Years. Of course, she wants money, but she wanted money in 1999 when she gave away those interviews. She must have thought it would work out well. Now, she can tell us how she thought that and how it didn't go so well.

And of course, she can retell the old story, with new more honest/more lurid details, and with revelations about all the times she fudged the truth with Morton and Walters, to serve what she believed were her interests at the time.

She's also earned a master’s degree in social psychology from the London School of Economics. That along with the maturity of her advanced age (39) might bring some actual insight to the story of Monica and Bill — which is never going to go away.

IN THE COMMENTS: Rabel notes that the word "unpaid" — seen in the quote I extracted above — no longer appears at the linked article and provides, via Wikipedia, the information that "Lewinsky made about $500,000 from her participation in the book and another $1 million from international rights to the Walters interview."

She's also earned a master’s degree in social psychology from the London School of Economics. That along with the maturity of her advanced age (39) might bring some actual insight to the story of Monica and Bill — which is never going to go away.

Not that the left won't do their damndest to lie about it until their dying day: "It was only sex!" "Everybody cheats!" "Everybody gets one free grope!"

She was 22, cute (I'm not big on the anorexic type myself) and the most powerful - and thus one of the most stressed-out - man in the world was looking for an outlet. Bill apparently always has an appreciative eye out. She was eager and he was willing. There's worse vices, especially for a man in his position. It doesn't take a lot to figure out what this was all about.

Not to hijack, but I lost track- at 32 years old, is Chelsea still 'off limits' because she's Clinton offspring? Last I heard, Chelsea could act like reporter on '30 Rock', but you weren't allowed to ask questions...

When this subject comes up, I always wonder what it must be like to be famous for blowing the President.

Jokes and slide remarks are just poised and ready to come forth from he lips of everyone around you. As you are talking to them, they are struggling to hold them back, and the vision of you doing it is in their head every time they talk to you. Very few times does your name come up without that event following, if not out loud, then unspoken.

I never want to be famous for anything, I can't imagine if it was that.

The thing I love best about the Lewinsky saga was when the story first broke, it was being rumored that she was underaged and they had assembled a Charlie Rose panel (mostly feminists) on that premise who were prepared to defend Clinton on that basis. Luckily, the details about her real age came out just before taping. Some of the panel still gave a glimpse of their prepared defense though and it was as sickening as you can imagine.

I've always felt sort of sorry for her for this. She made a big mistake, I'll start with, by having a relationship with a man she knew to be married. That said, she was, though old enough to know better, still quite young. She's clearly a smart woman, one who surely was planning a bright future, but today her name remains a joke, a synonym for oral sex. What man would bring her home, marry her, introduce her to his parents and friends and suffer the jokes? What employer would hire her for a serious career? She doesn't deserve to be a joke for the rest of her life for a mistake made at age 22.

I guess Mr. Clinton never thought of that when he was making nice with a woman only a few years older than his daughter, but he should have.

I feel sorry for as well (for the reasons you've listed), but she's also played off of this. Tom Green did a show where he brought Monica Lewinski home to see his parents and told them they were making a big announcement the next day.The announcement was that they were making hand bags together, but the implication was marriage, and his parents looked horrified.

She hosted a (terrible) reality show for a little bit. And I think that she had a purse line at one time. Nothing, to my knowledge, that didn't trade on her celebrity (of sorts). I wonder if she's tried, though. I don't imagine that she would have pursued an advanced degree if her only hope was to be this.

You have a good point. The way things played out afterwards are the reverse of what I'd have liked. Why isn't Clinton a euphamism for oral sex? I remember a Law & Order show using Lewinsky for that, and couldn't help thinking that they used the wrong name.The left certainly hasn't been kind to Ms Lewinsky, all for the crime of admitting what happened.

If a President of a corporation, or the Dean of a University would have conducted himself at our President did, he would be out of a job. Bill Clinton, disbarred and 'disiplined" is a hero to the Democrat party. WTF?

I do not see Lewinsky as the victim despite her young age. She was experienced sexually and by all accounts danced the dance of seduction with Clinton knowing full well where it would lead--hot sex with the most powerful man in the world in the Oval Office.

Lewinsky did not foresee being outed or the impeachment but she was no innocent.

"Of course, she wants money, but she wanted money in 1999 when she gave away those [i]nterviews."

She actually wanted money in 1998 when Bill Richardson held open a staff position in his office, and visited her mother's home in the Watergate complex to interview her (Monica) for the position. I'm sure he went to the home of each potential employee(!)

That staff position at the UN Ambassador's office paid $90k/yr at that time. Clinton was interested in having her take that position and move to NYC, becasue it would take her out of subpoena range of the DC Grand Jury. She felt entitled to more money and didn't take the position.

As to her Master's Degree from the London School of Economics, I know people who have completed such programs, and I get the impressison it is a bit like a prestigious business school granting "Executive" MBA's for an enormous tuition - a real money maker for the school.

She doesn't deserve to be a joke for the rest of her life for a mistake made at age 22.

Youth is no excuse -- there are 20-year-old squad leaders in Afghanistan -- but Pres. Clinton could have had the gallantry to send her away. There were more mature women closer to his own age (Nina Burleigh) willing to fellate him NQA.

She was cold blooded enough to sequester the blue dress, and she chose Linda Tripp as a confidante. I got the sense that she was working out issues from her parents' divorce and this was exactly the denouement she was hoping for. The surprise was that the mess got left on her instead of Clinton.......I've always wondered how some politicians swallow their scandals, and others get swallowed by the scandal. My theory is that the king can be lustful and exploitative, but he cannot be needy. John Edwards was needy. Rielle Hunter exploited him, perhaps more than he exploited her. That was unseemly. Clinton and the Kennedys used women like kleenexes. That was a regal vice.

Monica's problem is that everyman that sees her, sees Bill's dick in her mouth. And always will. I'm not saying that is fair but it is what it is. The best thing for her to do is to live as quiet a life as possible.

Ultimately, Bill Clinton's sexual harassment with Lewinsky may have cost the country privatization of Social Security and Medicare. From Wikipedia: "January 1998 – Progress on the reform agreement reached on October 28, 1997 between Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich was derailed by the Lewinsky scandal approximately a week before Clinton was to announce the initiative in his State of the Union address."

Ultimately, Bill Clinton's sexual harassment with Lewinsky may have cost the country privatization of Social Security and Medicare.

I think you may be thinking of Clinton’s (half-hearted) proposal to have the federal government invest part of the Social Security “surplus” in mutual funds with the government (rather than the individual account holder) being the owner. State ownership of private enterprises is kind of the opposite of privatization.

@bagoh20 I'd be perfectly capable of talking to Monica w/o the event popping into my head - though I might want to ask her what she was thinking. I think that's a guy thing - and that's what she got at 21 but didn't get at the same time.

I feel sorry for her. She reminds me of a roommate of mine in college. She understood sex is fun and blah blah, and didn't understand she'd be penalized for it by the very same gender that favored her because? Because why? Because of everyone's essential psychological weirdness that isn't going away anytime soon no matter how much people pretend they're beyond it. Women who don't follow that route often have an innate understanding of the repercussions - unfair as they are. And they are. That's why it's called bimming out.

If you grew up being lectured by feminists about sexual harassment in the workplace (Jones), sexual discrimination in the workplace (Lewinsky) and sexual assault in the workplace (Wiley) you certainly cared.

It was the moment the feminist movement got down on their hands and knees and swallowed in exchange for a Clinton veto of a partial birth abortion ban.

Obviously, two adults had an affair, but not that often does the affair involve the president and a cigar. A cigar! I hope Monica tells us about that part of the affair. To some people, it's almost normal.